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Adaptation Quotes (page 10)

Woodrow Wilson quote: "Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with..."
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. Woodrow Wilson
I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. Gijs de Vries
E. O. Wilson quote: "Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved..."
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. E. O. Wilson
A. N. Wilson quote: "It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to..."
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. A. N. Wilson
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. Vernor Vinge
I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses. Tom Hiddleston
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. Alfred de Vigny
Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know. Michael Vick
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. George C. Williams
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!' Robert B. Parker
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. Chris Cornell
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. Salvatore J. Cordileone
Francis Ford Coppola quote: "I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt..."
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. Francis Ford Coppola
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way. Gwyneth Paltrow
If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging. Kenneth H. Cooper

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